Instructor:  Kim Gage Ryan has 25 years of congregational experience, with ministry foci in Christian Education, Hospitality and Evangelism, Team Building with staff, ministerial colleagues, and congregational leaders.  With a sensitivity to process and healthy organizations, Rev. Ryan coaches/mentors individuals, groups, and churches toward their desired goals and ministry aspirations.  She is a graduate of Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University with a Masters of Divinity degree and of Texas Tech University where she studied psychology, child development, and art.  Rev. Ryan is also a trained and certified labyrinth facilitator through Veriditas with Lauren Artress and a trained Spiritual Director through The Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA. She is presently studying Sacred Leadership/Resilient Community through Wisdom University.              

Kim grew up in Amarillo, TX attending First Christian Church and serving in youth leadership through the Southwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).  She and Bill Ryan were co-ministers in Wabash, IN for five years.  In 1989 Kim was called to serve as Associate Minister at Broadway Christian Church where she ministered until May 2009. She currently is co-director of The Bethany Fellowships/Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), facilitating and mentoring young ministers in their first five years of ministry across the United States. In Columbia she is the coordinator for TREE - Teen Relationship Education and Empowerment working with 16 Boone County Congregations to resource them in helping their teens discern healthy relationships, unhealthy relationships and abusive relationships.  Kim also directs the NEOLA camp for 8th graders, That Camp About God and Sex.